Account Of The Bartram Garden

Author : Elizabeth O. Abbot
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ISBN 13 : 9781332002351
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Bartram's Garden written by Elizabeth O. Abbot and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bartram's Garden: Philadelphia, John Bartram, Born Near Darby, 23rd March, 1699, Died On the west bank of the Schuylkill River, not far from where it runs into the Delaware, lies Bartram's Garden, a garden that was planted more than a hundred and seventy years ago, and had not then its like anywhere in the New World. In those far-away days, Indians of a friendly tribe came and went like apparitions; what was it to them, I wonder, to come out of Penn's woods or step from their canoes into this tended garden; was there not a little catch in the breath, and, for an instant, a misgiving as to whether hunting-grounds were all? We know that, later, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and others, weighted with affairs, felt the charm of the garden and rested there. And time and change and neglect have not quite broken the spell. The charm is there to-day, - elusive; much of it, indeed, due to time, for the place is shrouded in memories, an Indian-summer haze about the life of one simple, dignified, happy, tireless man, John Bartram. It is no little deed to make a garden, that "greatest refreshment to the spirits of man." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.